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The Swimming Hole

By George Bowering | May 9, 2013

George Bowering goes down to the ol’ swimming hole.

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Poet and Son: Lewis Chaucer

By John Harris | May 7, 2013

The first of John Harris’s series-in-progress, “Poet and Son,” is about Geoffrey and Lewis Chaucer.

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Thinking Television: Tales of Media and Communication

By Norbert Ruebsaat | May 5, 2013

Norbert Ruebsaat’s media students from around the world tell him how they watch television.

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It’s the End of the Semester… as we know it

By Stan Persky | April 18, 2013

Stan Persky looks at the 2012-13 teaching season. Everything from “real education” to MOOCs and the Virtual U.

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Somebody’s Horse

By George Bowering | April 17, 2013

George Bowering, as a kid, encountering death and poetry in the Southern Okanagan Valley..

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Media Studies: Heart and Soul

By Norbert Ruebsaat | April 16, 2013

In Norbert Ruebsaat’s Media Studies column, a teacher and student discuss “God.”

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Mobile Realism

By Norbert Ruebsaat | April 11, 2013

What are those students doing, under the table, down in their laps? Norbert Ruebsaat investigates.

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Iraq in the Mirror of Media: 10 Years Later

By Stan Persky | April 4, 2013

The U.S.-led war in Iraq marks its tenth anniversary. How does what the media said about it then stand up today? Dooney’s takes The Orwell Test.

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Language and Silence, or, Just Shut the Fook Up

By Stan Persky | March 26, 2013

Tim Parks travels to the end of his mind in search of a little peace and quiet.

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The Mother-in-Law Joke

By Stan Persky | February 27, 2013

Stephen Marche thinks it’s the Golden Age of reading and writing. Howard Jacobson thinks readers are disappearing and fiction is “fooked” (as they say in England). Stan Persky investigates.

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